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Saturday, 29 September 2012

Alas, I've finally entered my third and final year at university and have moved in to a cute* little flat with my good ol' chums way back from first year.

The work load hasn't hit hard just yet so me and my flat mate Ellie found ourselves with a bit of spare time this Saturday. Obviously baking had to be our chosen pass-time and so we made some oh, so naughty Nutella frosted cupcakes with crushed crunchy M&Ms. We thought we'd stick to a plain cupcake base and go full-on with a topping in order to avoid an overall sickly-sweet cupcake.

*mouldy

Observe:

As you can see, the cupcakes look fabulous (if I do say so myself).

And they tasted fab too, here's the recipe.

For the basic cupcake mix (serves 12) you will need:

125g unsalted butter, softened

125g caster sugar

125g self raising flour

A pinch of salt

2 medium eggs

2 table spoons of milk

Preheat oven at 190C/ gas mark 5

In a bowl, beat and stir the butter until it's soft.

Add the sugar, flout, salt, eggs, and milk and whisk at a steady pace until mixture is smooth

Spoon a little amount into each cupcake case

Careful not to over fill or they will collapse in oven!

Leave in the oven for around 15 minutes

Once ready leave to cool for about another 5 minutes

For Nutella frosting you will need:

125g unsalted butter

1 cup of Nutella

125g of icing sugar

2 Tbsp milk

In a bowl, soften the butter (beating it)

Add the cup of Nutella and stir until it's properly mixed in with the butter

Next add casting sugar and stir which should make the mixture quite pasty

Add milk which will soften the mixture and turn it smooth and shiny

Once the cupcakes have cooled spoon/pipe the desired amount of Nutella frosting onto each cake.